Apparatus for parceling coins.



No. 892,878 I PATENTED JULY 7, 1908. W. C. OLLAND.

APPARATUS FOR PAROELING COINS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 28.1907.

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APPARATUS FOR PAROELING COINS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 28. 1907.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WILLEM OAREL OLLAND, OF UTREOHT, NETHERLANDS.

APPARATUS FOR PARCELING COINS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 7, 1908.

Application filed June28, 1907. Serial No. 381,364.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLEM CAREL OL- LAND, a subject of the Queen of The Netherlands, residin at No. 71 Biltstraat, Utrecht, Kingdom of he Netherlands, have invented certain new and useful" Improvements in Apparatus for Parceling Coins, of which the following is a specification. i

The present invention relates to apparatus for quickl and automatically counting coins and ividinglarge quantities-of-coins-- stopping delivery at a certain predetermined number. For this purpose the. coins are dropped throughan adjustable hopper on to the apex of a cone, .over the surface of which they distribute-themselves automatically in an approximately uniform manner, and are.

caug t in open ended tubes arranged in a circle, through which tubes the coins are dropped in succession on to an annular table. The revolving central portion of said table is provided with a number of finger-like projections, one for each of the tubes, which projections always push the lowermost coins away towards a guide tube by which they are conducted into envelops the capacity of which may correspond to the number of coins they are to contain. At the same time as the lowermost coins are pushed away a counting device is set in action. The full packets of coins obtained in this way are then removed either by hand or automatically, and are replaced by empty ones. A special device is provided whereby the rotation of the central portion of the annular table is sto ped and a conveyer carrying the coin pac ets is turned, as soon as the position of all the counting devices is the same, i; e; as soon as the predetermined number of coins has passed into each of the envelops. the counting devices" is controlled by the completion ofan electric circuit.

Onelexample or embodiment of the inveris tion is illustrated in the accompanying? drawings in which:-Fig ure I is aside eleva- The corresponding position of all tion and Fig. 2 a plan; Fig. 3 shows one of the counting devices on a larger scale; and Figs. 4 and 5 show a portion of the-automatic checking device, also on a larger scale.

The coins suitably conveyed, as by a belt or a cup elevator, are dropped into a fun} nel shaped hopper, (Fig. 1-) terminating in a tube 2, which is provided with an inverted funnel 3. Under and concentrically with said funnel 3 is arranged a cone 4, turned to a uniform pitch on all sides, over which the falling coins distribute themselves in all directions. Around the outer edge of the cone 4 are arranged a number of hoppers 5,, the sector-like orifices of which lie in a circle so that each of these hoppers takes up a prac 'tically equal number of the uniformly advancing coins to enable the uniformity of distribution to be adjusted, the hopper 3 is adjustable over the cone 4. The hoppers 5 'deliver into cylindrical guide tubes 6 which have a rather larger diameter than the coins themselves and are long enough to take a column of say 50 to 200 coins.

- An annular flat table 7 is mounted under these guide tubes 6 and at a certain distance from the lower edge of same so that there is just sufficient room for the lowermost coin to be pushed away. This pushing is effected by a rotary disk 8, carrying. a number of fixed fingers 9 and mounted within the annular plate 7 soas to rotate on a vertical shaft. These fingers project over the edge of the table aboutas far as-the middle of the guide tubes 6. The height of the fingers is about the same as that of the coins, so that the fingersareable to pass between the table and the lower edge of the guide tubes 6, carrying with them the lowermost .coin in each of such guidetubes and'pushing it into teeth corresponding in number to the .num-

ber of coins which are to make up a parcel, e. g. 25, 40 or '50 teeth; and these are numb'ered accordingly. The counter is moved to "an adjacent orifice 10 (Fig. 2 in theannular' the extent of a single tooth only'when a coin is actually pushed from the tube into the ori fice 10.

The arrangement of the counter is as follows: A two-arm lever 1213 is rotatably mounted on the shaft 11 (Fig. 3). The arm 13 is of about the same thickness as a coin. The end of the arm 12 carries a bell-crank lever 14, which is jointed thereto and forms a pawl for the counting wheel 16. This pawl is kept pressed into the teeth of. the wheel 16 by a coiled spring 15, back motion thereof being limited by the stop block 17 (Fig. 3). Each coin as it leaves the tubes 6 is engaged by one of the fingers 9 and pushed ."gainst a projection 37 (Fig. 3) on the annular table 7, as also against the end of the lever arm 13. For the sake of clearness this projection is not shown in Fig. 2. On' the advance of the finger 9, the-lever arm 13 is turned by the coin, whereby the pawl 14is-eaused to slide over the back of the ratchet teeth and to click into the next tooth as soon as the coin has released the arm 13. At this instant the coin falls down into the hole 10, the coiled spring 15 pulls the ratchet wheel forward a distance of one tooth and the arm 13 back into its original position. This operation is repeated for each coin. The stop 17 prevents the ratchet wheel from bc-ing 'moved through a greater distance than the length of one tooth. Another pawl 18 actuated by a coiled spring is intended to prevent the awl 1-4 pushing back the ratchet wheel un er the influence of the spring 15 by which it is kept pressed against the periphery of the ratchet Wheel.- The above described device insures the counting wheel being held quite firmly in all directions.

The table 7 carries, arranged in a circle, as many contact springs 20 as there are counting wheels, the free end of each spring extending beyond or overlapping the point at which the next spring is attached; to the table. The cooperating ends of two of these springs are provided with a pair of contacts 55 and 56 which are connected ina circuit including'the magnet 23, an electric bell 57 and a battery or other source of current 58, the battery being also connected to the electro-magnet in a manner to be hereinafter described. A pin 19 fixed on the lower face of the ratchet wheel, presses against the contact spring 20 when the wheel is in a certain position, and thus brings the'free end of the spring 20 into contact with the point of attachment of the next spring, thereby completing'the circuit of the electromagnet 23 (Fig. 1). This position corresponds with either the zero position of the wheel or else that of the highest number.

It will be evident that the circuit cannot be completed until an equal number of coins, corresponding to the highest number of the teeth on the wheels, has been pushed from under all the tubes 6. The completion of the circuit first rings the bell 57 and then, by means of the electromagnet 23, releases a stop motion, whereupon the filled packets of coins can be taken away. will hereinafter be more fully described.

Below the holes 10 are provided hoppers and guide tubes 38 through which the coins are directed into envelops 39, suspended from a belt conveyer 24, and made of cardboard or similar suitable material. The belt conveyer 24 is, as shown in Fig. 2, passed round a horizontal pulley mounted outside the machine and round the pulley 25 placed on the same horizontal level and'equal in diameter to the disk 8. The envelops are suspended in corresponding holes in the belt,

Such stop motion I and pass under the openings of the guide tubes 38 as the belt is moved. Y The movement of the belt 24 and the rotation of the disk 8 are effected by the worm 27, which drives the shaft 28 b a worm wheel 46, the movement of the sai shaft being transmitted by bevel gears 47 and 48, the shaft '49, and frictiongear 50, to the belt conveyer. The same shaft 28 operates both the belt conveyer 24 and the disk 8, through the bevel Wheels 29,

30, the shaft 31, pinions 32, 33, shaft 34 and friction wheels 35 and 36, in such a manner that the friction wheels 50 and 35 do not drive the belt conveyer at the times when the disk 8 is turning, saidconveyer consequently remaining stationary at such times, and conversely the gear wheel 36 cannot operate the revolving disk 8 during the time when the belt conveyer is in motion, and when said disk is accordingly intended to remain stationary;

The device for temporarily suspending rotation of the disk 8 while leaving the belt conveyer free, and vice versa, is arranged as gluarter turn for each revolution et Wheel 21, by engagin with one which is adapted to freely enter a hole 43' in the pulley 25, while the'upper end..42 of same can engage with a lug 41 on the disk 8. The

bar 26 is also connected with a two-armlever 44, the other end of which forms or carries the armature of the electroma net 23 which as already stated, is connecte' in the circuit of the contact springs 20. The lever 44 is held in equilibrium by a spring 40. The

result is that the'ratchet wheel 21 making one revolution to everyfour revolutions of the disk 8, the notch 53 is brought into position opposite the projection or feather, Whereupon the lever 22 engages with said notch which-permits the ascent of the bar 26, the upper end 42 of which locks the-lug 41 which has meanwhile been carried round by the disk 8 into position in front of the bars. By this means any movement of the disk 8 is prevented. At the same time the lower end of the bar is partly drawn out of the hole 43 in the pulley 25. The complete release of the belt conveyer 24 is efiec'ted by the electhe belt conveyer. 1 The only movement required of the belt conveyer at each step is to enable a set of envelops 39-to be inserted in place of the full ones. As soon as this is done, the motion of the belt must be checked, the bar 26 being intruded into the hole 43. This is efl'ected by means of the following device: The revolving pulley 25 is provided at its under side with an annular contact ring 54 having an insulating plate 59 set therein. A'contact stud 60 which has an insulated mountthe shaft of the revolving pulley 25 is ar-,

ing in a bracket 61 secured to the bearing for ranged to engage against the said contact ring. The contact stud 60'is electrically connected to the battery 58 while the contact rin 54-is connected to the bearing for the pulley 25, the latter being connected electrically to the magnet 23 as shown in Fig 2. The

. contact stud 60 passing over the insulating plate 59 breaks the circuit of the electromagnet 23 shortly before the hole 43 again comes under the bar 2 6, consequently the armature is released, and the spring 40 pulls the bar down thus passing it against the u per face of the pulley 25, while the lug 41 of the disk 8 still remalns in contact with the top edge 42 of the bar 26. As soon, however, as the hole 43 has arrived, underneath the bar, the latter drops'into same, therebylocking the belt conveyer and releasing the disk 8, which thereu on again begins to turn.

As a ready mentioned the slgnal bell57 is I connected up in the circuit of the electromagnet. If the bell fails to ring after four revolutions, notwithstanding that the stop motion 21, 22 has stopped the disk 8, this indicates that some of the counting devices have not reached their maximum figures, and the cause of-the errormay be traced.

' The operation of theapparatus is briefly as follows: All the counters having been set to zero, the feather on the lever arm 22 is ad- I jacent tothe notch 53 in' the ratchet wheel 21,

sothat, the cam 51 coming into position against one of the teeth 52, the bar 26 releases the lug and drops into the hole 43 in the of the disk 8.

pulley 25; and when, furthermore, empty envelops have been placed in the holes in the belt conveyer the driving mechanism 27 is started and a quantity of coins is emptied into the ho per 1. -The coins slide down over the surface of the cone 4, and through the guide tubes 6 to the annular table 7 where they are engaged by the fingers 9 of the revolving disk 8 and pushed into the hole 10, the counting wheel being turned one tooth every time. The coins then fall through the guide tubes 38 into the envelops 39; and assuming each envelop to be calculated to hold say 40 coins and the machine to be provided with ten counting devices, guide tubes 6 and fingers 9, and all the ratchet wheels to have 40 teeth, then the packets will be filled with coins in four turns At the same moment the motion of the disk 8 is checked and the bar is drawn up out of the hole 43 in the pulley 25, I

hopper, a set of chutes, a transferring member common to all the chutes for conveying thecoins from the hopper to the chutes, a device individual to each chute having means for advancing it a step for each coin actually conveyed to the chute, and an indicator controlled'by said devices of all the chutes for indicating whether all the chutes have received a full number of coins.

2. In a coin packaging machine, the combination with a coin chute, and an annular row of stacking devices, of a distributer centered axially of the chute and concentrically of the stacking devices for directing the coins into the latter, a plurality of envelo supporting devices, and a revoluble trans erring member common to all the stacking devices and having a plurality of fingers ri idly fixed thereon for conveying the coins rom the stacking devices to the-corresponding envelops.

3. In a coin packaging machine, the combination with an annular row of stacking devices, and means for distributing the coins thereto, of acorresponding row ofenvelop supporting devices arranged below the stacking devices, an operating element for revolvin the envelop supportiln devices, a rotata 1e disk havin means thereon for transferring the coins rom the stacking devices to the corresponding envelops, and a stop-motion arranged to cooperate alternately with the said disk and element for interrupting the movement of the disk and permitting movement of the operating element for the envelop supporting devices.

4. A coin handling machine comprising a hopper, an annular row of coin chutes arranged to receive coins from the hopper, a corresponding row of coin-stacking tubes,

means common to all the chutes for transhopper to the respective stacking tubes, a

' coins from the piles to each of the enve op s conveyer having means for supporting a plurality of envelops in an annular row beneath and m alinement with the respective stacking tubes, a counting device for each tube, and a locking device for the conveyer releasable by the counting devices when they all register afull number of coins for each envelop.

6. The combination of a coin hopper, a plurality of means for piling coins into separate heaps, a cone between said hopper and the piling means adapted to distribute or apv portion the coins amon the piling means,

means for supporting a p urality of envelops,

and means for loading predetermined numbers of coins from the several piles into the envelo s.

7. e combination of a coin hopper, a

plurality of means for piling coins into separate lots, a cone between said hopper and the.

pilin means, said hopper being adjustable relatively to the cone, an annular support adapted to receive the piled coins, a rotatable -de vic e adapted to push away the bottom coin in each pile, a support adapted to carry a plurality of envelops, guides in the paths of the several pushed away coins adapted to load same onto the envelop support in separate lots, counting means for the several lots, and means for stopping a l ading means when a predetermined number of coins'have been loaded thereby.

8.-The combination of a plurality of means for piling coins into separate lots, means for feeding coins to said several piling means, a movable conveyer adapted to support a plurality of envelops below said piling means and having accommodation for a fresh supply of envelope remote from the piling means, means for transferring below the piling means, and means tot determining the number of coins to be delivered by each of said transferrin devices.

9. The combination of a traveing conveyer, means for feeding coins to same, means for driving said conveyer, electric: ally operated-means including contacts for .drive'.

controlling the motion of said conveyer, counting mechanism for determining the number of coins delivered to said conveyer and means operated by' said counting mechanism for closing said contacts so as to permit motion of the conveyer.

10. The combination of a beltconveyer, means for feeding coins tosame, means for ,moving said conveyer, means for locking said conveyer against motion, means including an electromagnet for releasing same, a contact in the circuit of said electromagnet, counting mechanism including a rotary part, and means ,carried by said rotary part for closing said contact.

11. The combination ofa conveyer, means including a rotary part for feeding coins to said conveyer in separate lots, means for driving said conveyer, lockingmeans between said rotary part and said driving means, means for actuating same one way to lock said rotary feedingpart and means for actuating said looking means the other way to lock, the conveyer 12. The combination of means for parceling out coins into lots, a-conveyer, means for conducting the coins of the several lots separately to said. conveyer, means 'for driving said conveyer, aflever, an electromagnetfor actuating same iii finedirection, anoplpositely acting spring, means for closing t e circuit of said electromagnet at redetermined times, a locking bar cariie by said lever and adapted on one motion thereof to lock theparcelin'g mechanism and on the opposite motion to lock the conveyer driving mechanism.

13. T e, combination of means for piling coins into a plurality of separate heaps, means for withdrawing coins from said heaps simultaneously, coordinate mechanisms for counting eachlot; of coins so withdrawn, a bar for lockingsaidwithdrawing means, means for normally keeping'said.

bar out of engagement with the withdrawin means, means for positively actuatin said bar to lock same and means adaptet l to be jointly controlled by all. the counting mechanisms for setting said actuating means in operation. I v

14. The combination of means for feeding coins into a lurality ofpiles, a rotary pusher for with rawing coins from all of said piles simultaneously, a bar for locking said pusher, means including a ratchet wheel such as 52, a contour cam such as 21 and a yieldable lever such as 22 for normally holding said bar out of locking position relatively to the pusher but releasing said bar after a predetermined number of revolutions of the pusher, and means adapted on the release of the bar to positively interlock same with the pusher.

15. The combination of means for feeding coins into a plurality of piles, a rotary pusher for withdrawing coins from all the piles simultaneously, coordinate mechan- Isms for counting each lot of coins so withdrawn, a oonveyer adapted to receive the 4 several lots, means for driving said pusher, means for 'drlvmg sa (1 conveyer, electncally controlled means for alternatively locking an means operated by said counting mechanisms for closing the respective contacts when a predetermined number has been reached by each.

In testlr'glony whereof l have hereunto 15 set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS HERMANN VERHAVE, AUGUST SIEGFRIED DOOAN. 

